1 of 15 Photos in Gallery With the world holding arsenals of nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war is always present. Tensions have been rising with Russian threats around the war in Ukraine. Here's what could happen to six US cities if they were hit by a 15-kiloton nuke, according to a simulation. As Russia has struggled to make progress invading Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has made veiled but pointed threats suggesting he could deploy nuclear weapons.Experts have told Insider nuclear weapons are still unlikely to be deployed in combat, a move that would put Russia at risk of alienating its allies and its own people. Nor have experts seen evidence of Russia preparing a strike.Still, though the threat of nuclear war is always present, and world leaders are taking it seriously.An interactive tool called NukeMap simulates the consequences of a nuclear weapon's impact.Using updated Cold War models of nuclear explosions, the tool provides an overview of the simulated scale of the devastation from a nuclear bomb in a given place — including a rough estimate of casualties and injuries.Here's what a 15-kiloton blast could look like on six US cities, according to this simulation.Read the original article on Business Insider
Still, though the threat of nuclear war is always present, and world leaders are taking it seriously.
An interactive tool called NukeMap simulates the consequences of a nuclear weapon's impact.
Using updated Cold War models of nuclear explosions, the tool provides an overview of the simulated scale of the devastation from a nuclear bomb in a given place — including a rough estimate of casualties and injuries.
Here's what a 15-kiloton blast could look like on six US cities, according to this simulation.
Here are all the women who have won Vladimir Putin's black heart
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Vladimir Putin is notoriously private about the women in his life.
But Western sanctions are shining a light on all his baby-mommas and ex-mistresses, who are living lavish and luxurious lives in the West funded by money stolen from the Russian people.
Here’s a look at the warmonger’s love interests:
Lyudmila Shkrebneva
This Russian flight attendant married Putin in 1983. She was officially the country’s “first lady” when Putin first became president in 2000, but by then they were already leading separate lives.
Russian President Vladimir Putin with his first wife, Lyudmila Shkrebneva, in 2012.REUTERS/Aleksey Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Pool
Their two daughters are now on the sanctions list: Maria Putina, 36, who uses the surname Vorontsova and is the co-owner of Nomenko, a health care investment firm, and Katerina Tikhonova, 35, a former competitive dancer who runs an artificial intelligence initiative at Moscow State University.
Katerina, meanwhile, married Kirill Shamalov in 2013 — and he then became Russia’s youngest billionaire, as a director and part-owner of Sibur, a Russian oil and petrochemical company. They divorced in 2018.
Putin’s eldest daughter, Maria Vorontsova, is co-owner of a health care investment firm.Photo by Dmitry FeoktistovTASS via Getty ImagesKaterina Tikhonova is a former competitive dancer.REUTERS/Jakub Dabrowski/File Photo
Putin and Lyudmila, meanwhile, didn’t divorce until 2014. She has since remarried and moved to the South of France. Her new husband, Artur Ocheretny, is two decades younger, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Her hubby is also rumored to be a GRU military official tasked with keeping an eye on her, sources say, as she works on projects “promoting Russian language and culture,” under the auspices of the so-called Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications.
Krivonogikh now lives in Monaco, in a $4.1 million apartment bought by a mysterious offshore firm that was exposed in the Pandora Papers last fall — with her 19-year-old daughter, Luiza Rozova, who is also known as Elizaveta Krivonogikh.
Putin allegedly had a child with Svetlana Krivonogikh, who worked at one of his compounds as a housecleaner.
Rozova looks strikingly like Putin. In 2020, after Rozova was outed by a Russian website, Proekt, her popularity on social media soared to 85,000 followers.
Rozova posted photos of herself living a life of luxury. Her mother, meanwhile, has a reported $95 million business empire and a yacht that has received a naval escort in St. Petersburg.
She is even a reported co-owner of Bank Rossiya, one of the largest private banks in Russia, founded with money from the Communist Party in the 1990s. After Putin invaded Ukraine, Rozova’s Instagram site was filled with anti-war comments made by users shaming the teen and her war criminal father, and her social media presence waswiped away.
Putin’s “lovechild” Luiza Rozova, whom he had with Krivonogikh.Instagram
Proekt, the Russian website — the name means Project — was shut down, its journalists were dubbed “foreign agents,” and a libel investigation was launched. The founder, Roman Badanin, was forced to flee and now teaches at Stanford University.
Kabaeva was apparently Muslim and converted to Russian Orthodoxy for Putin, sources say.
Putin has reportedly married former gymnast Alina Kabaeva.Photo by Sasha Mordovets/Getty ImagesPutin and Kabaeva are believed to have four children together.REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/Files
Known as Putin’s “Eva Braun,” Kabaeva and their children are believed to be living in Switzerland. Friends are reportedly urging her to use her influence to stop the war.
Victoria Lopyreva
This alleged mistresses is a Russian TV personality and Miss Russia 2003 who, by 2018, became an official ambassador of the FIFA World Cup and a director of the Miss Russia pageant.
She is now reportedly with a Russian named Igor Bularov.
Russian TV personality Victoria Lopyreva was reportedly Putin’s mistress.Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images
“The sanctions appear designed to increase pressure on Putin personally by embarrassing him because he has tried so hard to keep his daughters out of the spotlight and also because there is reason to believe that they are holding his wealth,” said Thomas Firestone, a sanctions expert and partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, who previously worked as resident legal adviser to the US Embassy in Moscow. “I think it may also be designed to send a message to him about the kind of intelligence the US and NATO have related to his personal life and are prepared to use.”
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ater levels continue to fall in Lake Mead due to worsening drought in the western United States and overuse of the Colorado River. In recent months, several shocking discoveries, such as human remains and sunken ships, have been uncovered as the water levels plummeted to historically low levels. Recently, scientists made a discovery that dates back to events that took place millions of years ago.
The falling water levels exposed sedimentary rocks that hadn't been seen in nearly a century when the Hoover Dam was built and Lake Mead was filled. According to researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), these sedimentary rocks are laced with volcanic ash that rained down on southern Nevada during volcanic eruptions roughly 12 million years ago.
A bathtub ring of light minerals shows the high water line of Lake Mead near water intakes on the Arizona side of Hoover Dam at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on June 26, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Researchers with UNLV's Cryptotephra Laboratory for Archeological and Geological Research (CLAGR) used geologic mapping to locate and collect samples of multiple ash layers at Lake Mead. Once the samples were chemically analyzed and compared to ashes from known volcanic eruptions across the western United States, scientists determined that the ash layers were mainly between 6 million and 12 million years old. Some of the ash found dates back to eruptions only 32,000 years ago, which in the geological time scale is not so long ago.
According to a news release of their findings, distinctive ash from four possible sources was discovered, including The Snake River Plain-Yellowstone hotspot track, which is a chain of volcanic centers in the Yellowstone National Park areas, the Southwest Nevada volcanic field northwest of Las Vegas, the volcanoes of Walker Lane in western Nevada and southeastern California and the Ancestral Cascades, which extend from northern California into British Columbia.
Specifically, the Snake River Plain-Yellowstone track has been active for the last 15 million years, according to the news release. It's a part of a chain of very large volcanic centers that have migrated, with time, from the northern Nevada-Oregon-Idaho junction, east, to the active area of Yellowstone National Park, near the junctions of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
The Southwest Nevada volcanic field, which was primarily active between 7.5 million and 13 million years ago is located about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. It produced about 10 large calderas, or supereruptions, over its lifespan, the researchers note.
"We knew that these ash units existed, but we were surprised to find so many as the Lake Mead water level lowered," Eugene Smith, an emeritus professor of geology at UNLV and co-author of the study, told CNN.
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Since March 15, 2022, when the paper was presented to the Geological Society of America, the official water level for Lake Mead dropped from 1,067 feet to 1,041 feet in August, then increased slightly to 1,045 feet.
Lake Mead has dried dramatically from 2000 to 2022, new satellite images from NASA show. (NASA)
CLAGR lab manager and longtime Southern Nevada geologist Rachel Johnsen said that by studying the past, researchers and investigators will better understand ashfall risks and plan for the future.
"The ash layers we study come from volcanoes long extinct," Johnsen said in a news release. "However, studying them has helped us determine just how often the Las Vegas area was inundated with ash over time and may help us prepare for future events from active volcanoes far from us."
In the U.S., most active volcanoes are monitored and surrounding towns have an evacuation plan in the event of impending eruptions. But according to Smith, the effects of explosive volcanic eruptions on populations far from the volcano are "often ignored."
This photo taken Monday, April 25, 2022, by the Southern Nevada Water Authority shows the top of Lake Mead drinking water Intake No. 1 above the surface level of the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam. The intake is the uppermost of three in the deep, drought-stricken lake that provides Las Vegas with 90% of its drinking water supply. (Southern Nevada Water Authority via AP)
Although there are currently no active volcanoes anywhere close to Las Vegas, the population could be affected by eruptions from volcanoes located elsewhere.
"Ash from even moderately explosive eruptions can travel hundreds of miles from the source, blanketing entire areas with anywhere from a centimeter to several meters of the heavy material, and causing disruption in aviation and automobile traffic, destroying utility lines, and by extension disrupting the transport of goods among different areas," Smith said.
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Mar 1, 2022VladimirPutin, the current president of Russia, fathered two known daughters with his ex-wife Lyudmila Putina The girls recognized as Maria Vorontsova and Yekaterina Tikhonova are both in their 30s and are very successful women Maria and Katerina supposedly have other siblings from their father's alleged affairs with other women
Mar 7, 2022Russian President VladimirPutin is currently one of the world's most scrutinised men, but the 69-year-old has always remained ruthlessly private about his family life in particular, his children.
Feb 22, 2022According to Business Insider, Putin has two daughters, and possibly one more, depending who you ask. According to Radio Free Europe, the identities of Putin's daughters has been something of an open secret for years. As far as his two confirmed daughters, their names are Maria and Katerina, and their mother is his ex-wife, Lyudmila Shkrebneva.
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